How can I safely append a crontab entry to a crontab file
progammatically with Python?
I need to handle crontabs that currently have entries and crontabs that
are empty. Also, I'd like this to work across Linux and BSD systems.
Any pointers? 3 5387
rbt <rb*@athop1.ath .vt.edu> writes: How can I safely append a crontab entry to a crontab file progammatically with Python?
Well, one way would be to invoke the system crontab utility and use an
"editor" that passes the file to your program, and reads the results
back.
I need to handle crontabs that currently have entries and crontabs that are empty. Also, I'd like this to work across Linux and BSD systems.
Any pointers?
I think most Free Unix systems use the Vixie cron, and the non-free
ones have a "crontab" command (do some of them call it cron?) with the
same API. So you're pretty safe using that.
If you want to assume that you're going to have the vixie cron, you
could dig into it's guts to see what it does for locking, and do that
by hand.
<mike
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On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:18 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: rbt <rb*@athop1.ath .vt.edu> writes:
How can I safely append a crontab entry to a crontab file progammatically with Python?
Well, one way would be to invoke the system crontab utility and use an "editor" that passes the file to your program, and reads the results back.
I need to handle crontabs that currently have entries and crontabs that are empty. Also, I'd like this to work across Linux and BSD systems.
Any pointers?
I think most Free Unix systems use the Vixie cron, and the non-free ones have a "crontab" command (do some of them call it cron?) with the same API. So you're pretty safe using that.
If you want to assume that you're going to have the vixie cron, you could dig into it's guts to see what it does for locking, and do that by hand.
<mike
Here's what I did... can you write uglier code than this ;)
Works on Mac and Linux... for the most part.
def add_cron_entry( ):
home = os.path.expandu ser('~')
cur_cron = os.popen('cront ab -l > current_crontab .txt')
cur_cron.read()
cur_cron.close( )
fp = file('current_c rontab.txt', 'a')
print >> fp, "0 * * * * %s/.theft_recovery .py" %home
fp.close()
load = os.popen('cront ab current_crontab .txt')
load.read()
load.close()
I have a win32 service written in Python. It works well. It sends a
report of the status of the machine via email periodically. The one
problem I have is this... while trying to send an email, the script
loops until a send happens and then it breaks. Should it be unable to
send, it sleeps for 10 minutes with time.sleep(600) and then wakes and
tries again. This is when the problem occurs. I can't stop the service
while the program is sleeping. When I try, it just hangs until a reboot.
Can some suggest how to fix this?
Thanks,
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